Finished Felt

I finished that little candle mat I started quite a while ago.  I ended up sewing a tiny seed bead on each of the points to hold the black felt to the gold felt.

Feels good to complete something albeit small...thought about doing these for church craft sale but they take so much time and I don't think they would sell for that much.  I do think it turned out cute though.

 

Day 205 - Felt and spray paint

Bought these metal stars in red after 4th of July for 1.99 each and wanted to spray them black to hang outside on my fence.  Dug out the spray paint tonight and began the process.

Pete was "helping" tonight by taking up most of the work space.

I began sewing the last candle mat (which is a different color green and I am using a single strand of floss for the stitching).

Day 201 - Felt and Paper Crafting

Finished the major stitching on Easter candle mat number 3!

Wanted a little change so started working on covering a (Christmas gift) little wood birdhouse with some lovely scrapbook papers.  Kind of challenging as this is a round birdhouse.

Got the edge of the base covered and then tried to figure out what to do next.

Did the edge under the roof, around the hole and the perch.

Cut a circle to cover the bottom and decided to call it a night.

Day 200 - Candle Mat

Same old, same old. 

 No place to take the photo as Pete is laying directly in front of me

.  So lets call this "creative photography".

Day 199 - Candle Mat

Finished #2 candle mat chicks and started #3.
 This is where I am at for now:

Day 198 - Easter Candle Mat

Picked this up again tonight and did some stitching...

Had a dinner out with my good friend Candy and look what she had crafted!

Two lovely dishcloths!  Thanks Candy!

Day 196 - Easter Candle Mat

Started stitching candle mat number 2 tonight.

Day 180 - Minimal....

Did a little bit of stitching tonight on the candlemat...long day with extra hours at work and not too motivated tonight.  Watched some of the show "Hoarders" online.  It was the scariest show I have ever seen...

Day 179 - Felt Candle Mat...

So I worked a bit on this candle mat and am not pleased at all with how it looks....:-(

This is the relaxation side of the basement-can't do much yet...

Did clean out the shelves and got rid of some books...

I had two new visitors this morning...

Wonder if they are related...

Day 172 - Felt Candle Mats

We had a fun albeit rainy camping weekend at Great River Bluffs State Park near La Crosse, WI.  Our daughter was able to join us for the weekend too.

After tremendous, torrential rains Friday night we went into La Crosse in the morning.  Visited Hobby Lobby and then to Olive Juice Quilts which Micaela so enjoyed.  It thrilled me no end to hear her say "I want some of each fabric in the store."  A daughter after my own heart!  I knew that it was a quilt shop that she would enjoy and find many fabrics that she would love!!  Then had lunch by the Mississippi River where we watched a barge go by.  Micaela suggested that we drive to the Lock and Dam #7 and watch it go through.  That took up the rest of the afternoon and was fascinating.  Dinner and a campfire and then the Park Ranger stopped by to let us know that there were severe thunderstorms in the area as well as high winds.  We packed things up for the night and about 45 minutes later the rain began.  Lots of rain and wind.  It was another grand camping weekend!

Needless to say not a lot of crafting was going on.  I did get the 8 base pieces cut out for the Easter candle mats and then some of the chicks pinned on to one of them.  So I go to begin sewing on the chicks and realize that the assortment of thread that I brought along for the project didn't have yellow in it.  So ended

 the attempt at this camping weekend crafting!!